The state Senate on Tuesday held a committee hearing on Pennsylvania’s commercial driver’s license (CDL) process, a month after the system became the controversy du jour with the Trump administration .

Despite the political rhetoric that erupted in November, Tuesday’s hearing was far less dramatic and pointed to several cases where bureaucratic inertia appeared to be the root cause of truck drivers hitting the road with dubious credentials.

On Nov. 9, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) said it arrested a man from Uzbekistan in Kansas who was wanted in his home country on terrorism charges. The man, identified as Akhror Bozorov, was a commercial truck driver with a Pennsylvania CDL issued in July 2025, according to ICE.

Bozorov’s license was a “non-domiciled” CDL, issued

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